Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> writes:
> At 10:15 AM 6/1/99 -0700, Andrew Layman wrote:
> . . .
> >It is unfortunately not spelled out in the spec precisely, but we had some
> >debate over whether other prefixes could be attached to
> >'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace', whether parsers were required to
> >match any prefix attached to 'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace', etc.
> >and the answer was "no."
>
> Almost. Yes, we had that discussion. Yes, the premise is reasonable.
> Unfortunately, we failed to reach consensus that it was a good idea
> to write that into the spec; thus, per the spec, it is perfectly
> legal to say
>
> <z xmlns:evil="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
>
> Furthermore, any reasonable implementation of a namespace-aware
> API and application would probably handle <foo evil:space="preserve">
> in the expected way. But the spec doesn't require it. -Tim
So now the problem as Richard formulated it comes around again. Such
a processor is actually in VIOLATION of the namespace spec IF it does
what you say in the following document:
<root xml:space='ignore'>
...
<z xmlns:evil="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
<foo evil:space="preserve">
<!-- preserving whitespace in here violates the namespace REC -->
...
</foo>
</z>
</root>
ht
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